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  1. Four Sailors Rescued from Liferaft after SV Raindancer Hit by Whale in

    SHORT TACKS On March 13, on a South Pacific crossing midway between Galapagos and the Marquesas, s/v Raindancer with four people on board sank after an encounter with a whale. It was lunchtime and they had been in the cockpit eating pizza. In 15 minutes the boat, a Peterson 44, had slipped beneath the surface and the crew were surveying a sunny sea from the slim shelter of a liferaft and ...

  2. Giant whale sinks sailboat leaving crew stranded at sea until rescue

    Rescued at sea: After a whale sank their sailboat, Florida crew stranded in South Pacific. A 44-foot sailing ship, Raindancer, was hit by a whale on March 13, sinking the boat in the South Pacific ...

  3. Sailboat Crew Rescued After Hitting Whale in Pacific Ocean

    In 2009, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescued a sailboat crew whose vessel had collided with a whale and sank about 70 miles off the coast of Mexico. But Raindancer's remote location made a ...

  4. Sailing adventure ends in dramatic rescue after whale sinks boat in the

    What started as a sailing adventure for one man and three of his friends ended in a dramatic rescue after a giant whale sank his boat, leaving the group stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean ...

  5. Sailboat Crew Rescued At Sea After A Whale Sinks Their Ship

    The Raindancer sank after a whale strike on March 13, 2023, and its four-man crew was rescued by a nearby vessel about ten hours later.

  6. Sailboat crew rescued in Pacific after abandoning ship sunk by whale

    Raindancer owner Rick Rodriguez and his three friends escaped the sinking ship and sent out a distress signal after an encounter with a massive whale.

  7. The rescue of Raindancer crew

    The skipper of Raindancer has said that the crew's Iridium GO! device, which they carried along with their SPOT tracker, was instrumental in their rescue. Just after 0500UTC, within 10 hours of Raindancer sinking, her four crew were rescued and taken safely aboard the catamaran Rolling Stone. They will continue their journey to French Polynesia ...

  8. Sailboat crew rescued in Pacific after whale sinks ship

    Sailboat crew rescued in Pacific after whale sinks ship. March 21, 2023. 29 views. 2 minute read. Rick Rodriguez and his three friends were 13 days into their three-week crossing from the Galapagos to French Polynesia on his 44-foot sailboat, Raindancer, when disaster struck on March 13. Rodriguez was on watch, and the crew were eating lunch ...

  9. Group of friends rescued after their boat was hit by a massive whale in

    A group of friends had to be rescued from the Pacific after their 44ft sailing boat sunk after being struck by a giant whale. Rick Rodriguez and three friends spent 10 hours on a lifeboat and ...

  10. Four Rescued After Whale Sinks Sailboat in Mid-Pacific

    Captain Rick Rodriguez and his crew of three spent nine hours adrift in a life raft and dingy after a collision with a Bryde's whale sank their 13-meter sailboat in minutes. The encounter sent the Raindancer to the bottom in only a quarter of an hour. It left her crew with three weeks of food, a week of water, a fishing pole, a rain-collecting device, and a phone-pairing satellite messenger ...

  11. News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition

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  12. Kiss of Death: Sailing crew's narrow escape after giant ...

    California: A sailing crew was in a movie like rescue operation after their 44ft long boat was sunk by a giant whale in the Pacific Ocean. As per reports, Rick Rodriguez of Tavernier, Florida, and his three friends had intended to sail for three weeks from the Galápagos Islands to French Polynesia, which was 3,500 miles distant in the south ...

  13. Sailboat crew left stranded in Pacific Ocean for 10 hours

    A sailboat crew is lucky to be alive after a huge whale hit their vessel, sinking the ship and forcing them to spend 10 hours on the Pacific Ocean waiting for someone to rescue them.

  14. Sailboat crew stranded in Pacific after massive whale sank their ship

    A sailboat crew is lucky to be alive after a huge whale hit their vessel, sinking the ship and forcing them to spend 10 hours on the Pacific Ocean waiting for someone to rescue them.

  15. KELLY-PETERSON 44

    Conceived by yacht broker Jack Kelly. Originally built by Yu Ching Marine in Taiwan.

  16. The Loss of the Schooner Raindancer

    Raindancer was lost on a reef at Grenada. Maybe it's because wood yachts are organic, like us humans, that we find the loss of a wooden boat to be more depressing than the loss of a fiberglass or steel boat. And perhaps the most depressing of all is the loss of a classic wood schooner. Alas, that's what John Rogers of the San Diego-based ...

  17. Sailing crew rescued after giant whale sank 44ft boat in Pacific Ocean

    Five seconds after the whale's collision, an alarm sounded, warning that the boat was filling with water and the sailor dispatched the EPIRB. Skip to content . Products. Beacon Testers. BT200 Beacon Tester; STB100 Beacon Test Bench; BT100 Beacon Tester; Beacon Monitors.

  18. Sailors Saved After A Huge Whale Sank 44ft Boat In Pacific Ocean

    Whale collided with a sailboat 13 days into the group's three-week sailing trip from the Galápagos Islands to French Polynesia. A giant whale sank a sailing crew's boat in the Pacific Ocean before the group was rescued after an ordeal that could have come out of a novel. After a whale sank their 44-foot sailboat Raindancer, Rick Rodriguez of Tavernier, Florida, and three pals endured 10 ...

  19. Sailing crew rescued after giant whale sank 44ft boat in Pacific Ocean

    Rick Rodriguez of Tavernier, Florida, and 3 good friends spent 10 hours on a lifeboat and dinghy following a whale sank the crew's 44ft sailboat Raindancer, the Washington Post documented on Monday.

  20. Tackling Moscow by Train and Boat

    Tackling Moscow by Train and Boat Our first full day in Moscow started fairly late since we were still catching up on sleep. Around 1, we finally were able to get our act together and get out the door. We stopped by a cafe to get some breakfast and headed over to the Red Square. Since the festival is going on, we had to go through metal detectors.

  21. The world's first year-round electric boats in Moscow! [4K]

    Friends, I want to share with you a new technical convenience for citizens of Russia, specifically for residents of Moscow. This is a really cool mode of tra...

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  23. Boat tours and river cruises through Moscow: where to take them

    Taking a boat tour in Moscow along the Moskva River is a very pleasant experience. It will allow you to get to know the city from another totally different perspective, see the bridges over the Moskva River up close and view some of the city's main monuments. In this article I'll give you details of the different tours you can take by boat and how to buy tickets.